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However, this time, decrease the angle of the blur to 1 so that the blur isn’t as intense. Adjust the settings in the Circular Motion Blur dialogue box until you get the look you want (I recommend copying my settings above), then click OK to apply the blur.ĭuplicate your main galaxy layer again (NOT the layer you just applied the blur effect to – the original image) and apply the Circular Motion Blur filter once more to this new layer (it will likely be name Galaxy copy #1). Create Black Holeĭuplicate your main galaxy layer by clicking on that layer and hitting the “Duplicate” icon in your layers panel.Ĭlick on the Galaxy copy layer and go to Filters>Blur>Circular Motion Blur. Grab the alignment tool from the toolbox, click on your image, change “Align Relative to:” to “Image,” under the Tool Options, then click “align center or target” and “align middle of target” (red arrows). Once the image has scaled down, you can use the alignment tool (green arrow in the image above) to more accurately center your image on the canvas. Click the “Scale” button to apply the effect. You can then click the four boxes in the middle of your image (blue arrow) to realign it so that it is centered on your canvas (it will move off center when it shrinks down).
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To do this, make sure the chain link icon (red arrow) is locked (so that your width and height will scale proportionately) and set the width to 25 inches. I’ll make sure the unit is set to inches and will decrease the size of the image so that it is slightly larger than the canvas (remember, our canvas was created at 24×36 inches – right now this image is around 47×84 inches). You’ll notice that the photo is much larger than the canvas, so I’ll grab the Scale tool (denoted by the green arrow in the image above) and will click on the photo to bring up the Scale dialogue box. Depending on how large the photo is that you are using (the photo I am using is quite large), it may take a few seconds or so for the effect to apply. In my case, I want to rotate the image 90 degrees, so I’ll type “90” for the angle (red arrow). This will bring up a “Rotate” dialogue box. Next, with the Galaxy layer selected, click on the Rotate tool (denoted by the green arrow in the image above) and click on the Galaxy photo. Rotate and Scale Your Image with Transform Tools This will add the image to its own layer.ĭouble click on the layer name in the Layers panel and change the name to “Galaxy.” 3. This will create a floating selection layer.Ĭlick on the floating selection layer and click the “create new layer” icon in your layers panel. Then select the tab in GIMP (if you are using single window mode) that contains your blank canvas and go to Edit>paste. Or, if you opened the image using the first method, you’ll have to go to Edit>Copy on your imported image. You can also simply click and drag the file from its file location onto the GIMP canvas, and it will be placed on its own layer, having the image file name as the layer name.
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Once you have your blank canvas, open your image into GIMP by going to File>Open and locating the file on your computer. OPTIONAL: You can also change the “Precision option” to “32-bit floating point” and the “Gamma” option to “Linear Light” if you want to take full advantage of GIMP’s abilities – but this is only recommended for those of you with high-performance computers with lots of RAM to handle the job. This may cause a warning to appear in GIMP saying that this will create a huge file size – but if you think your computer can handle it, just click OK to create your image. I set the resolution of the image to 72 ppi under the advanced options to ensure my file size wasn’t too huge for this tutorial – but it is typically recommended that, for best print quality, you keep your resolution set to 300 ppi. There are a few standard sizes for posters, but I used 24 inches x 36 inches for this composition.
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Start by creating a new image with whatever size you want your poster to be. This summer… one designer… will make an unforgettable movie poster… without… needing… Photoshop! That’s right, in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make an awesome movie poster using the free graphic design/photo editing/drawing program GIMP, using the latest version 2.9.8 – also called the Development Version.